Craig L Russell wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>
>> With things like the persistence APIs, it's feasible to get the API
>> definitions from the maven repository and get a separate implementation
>> from the maven repository (or elsewhere), combine them together, and have
>> something useful. The APIs are designed to support pluggable
>> implementations.
>> That's *much* less true with javaee.jar as a whole.
>
> I think we're conflating two concepts of "implementation".
>
> The kind of implementation contained in Persistence.java is restricted
> to bootstrapping. The Persistence.java code bootstraps the system by
> looking up an implementation of the rest of the JPA. Its job is then
> done. There is no reason to exclude this bootstrapping code from the
> javaee.jar or from any other packaging.
In Persistence.java the implementation code is small. In other classes
the implementation code is larger. To avoid confusion, for the intended
use of javaee.jar, we remove it all.